Seadragon Goes Mobile — Want to see giga-pixel images on your iPhone? Now you can—with Seadragon Mobile. Seadragon Mobile brings the same smooth image browsing you get on the PC to the mobile platform. Get super-close in on a map or photo, with just a few pinches or taps of your finger.

MSFT to Apple: Yes, your phone is better — As a number of people have already noted, Microsoft's release of Seadragon for the iPhone — an image-viewing app based on the deep-zoom technology behind the software giant's Photosynth project — doesn't just seem like an admission that the iPhone …

What Yahoo Should Do — In this economic day and age, cash is king. As markets, industries and companies delever in what seems to be a chorus of balance sheet deflation, the value of cash as an investment vehicle has increased exponentially. What does this have to do with Yahoo's strategy ?

Advertisers Face Hurdles on Social Networking Sites — FOR some time, Procter & Gamble, the world's largest advertiser, has been dipping its big toes into the vast pool of Facebook, now the world's largest social network. I recently knocked on the doors of both companies to hear how the experiment was going.

A Software Secretary That Takes Charge — SHOULDN'T your computer know a reasonable amount about your likes and dislikes? Wouldn't it be great if it could anticipate your needs and take action without you pressing a key? — Booking travel and restaurant reservations …

Challenges remain for Amazon digital music service — DENVER (Billboard) - After its first full year selling tracks from all four major labels, Amazon's digital music store has become the second-largest a la carte service, according to industry estimates. — But it's a very distant second to iTunes.

WordPress Targets Premium Designers for Deletion — In a page possibly taken from Microsoft's crushing of Netscape, Automattic is using its WordPress theme directory to penalize the sale of customized blog designs. — “Themes for sites that support “premium” (non-GPL or compatible) …

Change.gov iPhone App Now Available — Earlier this month we noted that Barack Obama's Presidential transition site Change.gov had added OpenID login for commenters and that the site had traded the traditional copyright for the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

SwissCom Tries To Deflect Criticism Of Le Web Internet Failure — I'm going to put aside my differences with the Le Web conference and organizer Loic Le Meur for a moment to address another issue at the event: the complete lack of Internet connectivity, both days. — A good conference has at least three separate connections.

From signed up to satisfied — Getting new users is easy; keeping them is hard. Join Intercom co-founder Des Traynor as he explains how to bridge the gap between a company's initial traction and sustained success.